HOMEWORK

Can you please put your homework (Ray diagrams) in the plastic wallet on my desk labelled Y8 homework. Anyone who has not completed their homework or has forgotten it, can join me at break time in S6.

What would life be like without colour?

Dull.

How do these colours make you feel?

Colour moods
Different colours can affect how we feel: RED can make people angry ORANGE is a happy colour YELLOW is a cheerful colour GREEN is calming BLUE is a cool but restful colour Do you agree? Write a list of colours at the back of your books and next to them, write what they make you feel.

10.4 Colour!

Learning Outcomes
Today you will: 1.Draw a diagram to show the different colours that make up white light 2.Plan and carry out a presentation about how the different theories of what makes up white light

Memorise these. You have 30 seconds. GO!

Today you will: 1.Draw a diagram to show the different colours that make up white light 2.Plan and carry out a presentation about how the different theories of what makes up white light

What was Learning Outcome 2?

What was Learning Outcome 2?

2. Plan and carry out a presentation about how the different theories of what makes up white light

Lesson Objective
To be able to explain how white light can be dispersed into 7 different colours, according to their wavelengths.

Lets watch a demo.

What colour is the light that we see come out of a light bulb? What colours do we see in a rainbow?

10.4 Dispersing light Breaking up white light

Dispersion

Youve just seen how a prism can break up white light into 7 colours.

This breaking up of white light is called dispersion. The prism disperses the light. KEY WORD ALERT!

10.4 Dispersing light Colours

Dispersion

This breaking up of white light is called dispersion. The prism disperses the light. When white light is broken up like this the 7 colours are always in the same order.

RED
ORANGE YELLOW GREEN BLUE INDIGO VIOLET

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ROY GBIV

How can you remember the order? Theres the famous spy:

ROY GBIV Or a defeated British king:

Richard Of York Gained Battle In Vain

See if you can think of your own.

10.4 Dispersing light Colours

Rainbows

You can see the order in this rainbow.

10.4 Dispersing light Why does light disperse like this?

Remember that light is a wave. wavelength

Wavelengths

The size of a wave is measured from one peak to the next and is called its wavelength. KEY WORD ALERT!

Why does light disperse like this?

Each colour has its own wavelength.

Wavelength and Dispersion

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White light is made up of all the colours of the rainbow. Red has the longest and violet has the shortest wavelength.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE SHOW ME WHERE I WOULD MEASURE THE WAVELENGT H ON THESE

Why does light disperse like this?

Wavelength and Colour

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When light enters a glass prism it slows down. But the shorter wavelengths slow down most and so bend more sharply. Blue is a short wavelength. Red is the longest one.

Why does light disperse like this?

Blue Bends Best

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As each wavelength, or colour, slows down at a different rate it therefore has a different angle of refraction to the rest. This means the different colours spread out. REMEMBER! Blue bends best.

KEY PHRASE ALERT!

Why does light disperse like this?

Spectrum of Colour

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The shape of the prism means they spread out even more on leaving the prism.

You may see a small spectrum with a rectangular glass block but the colours do not spread out as much. KEY WORD ALERT!

IN YOUR BOOK, COPY AND COMPLETE THE DIAGRAM ABOVE TO SHOW WHITE LIGHT DISPERSING INTO ITS 7 COLOURS. COLOUR IN THE SPECTRUM ON THE RIGHT TO SHOW THE SPECTRUM OF COLOUR. REMEMBER: ROYGBIV!

SWAP BOOKS, LOOK AT THE ANSWER ABOVE, AND GIVE YOUR PARTNER TWO STARS AND A WISH. STARS = WHAT WENT WELL WISH = WHAT THEY COULD IMPROVE FOR NEXT TIME

Lets watch a demo.

So we know how to split white light into its seven colours. Can we turn these colours back into white light? How?

Recombining colours

Making white light again

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When a second prism is added upside down the dispersion of the second prism is in the opposite direction to the original dispersion. White light is formed again.

Recombining colours

Making white light again

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Look carefully. The two triangular prisms form a parallel-sided glass block.

We didnt see dispersion when we passed a ray of light through a rectangular glass block.

Spinning disc

Making white light again

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The image stays on the retina at the back of the eye for about 1/10 of a second. When the disc spins very fast all the colours of the rainbow appear on the retina together.

The colours all combine to form white light.

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Presentations

Different scientists have different theories about light. I am going to put you in groups of three. Then I am going to give each of your groups a number. Whatever number I give you, that is the scientist I want you to research, and prepare a quick, 1 minute presentation on, to be presented at the end of the lesson. All groups MUST answer questions 1 and 2 on p120 in the How do we think about light box, in your exercise books.

Group 1. Isaac Newton Group 2. Christian Huygens

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Presentations

Lets use the random name generator to select groups to present

Group 1. Isaac Newton Group 2. Christian Huygens

Today I have learned:

From our class discussion, write three bullet points to describe three things you have learned today, in your exercise book. You have 56 seconds. Go.

Thumbs up, in the middle, or down, depending on how confident you feel our lesson objective.

To be able to explain how white light can be separated into 7 different colours, according to their wavelengths.